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Religiously motivated violence caused by the fusion of state and
religion occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan and later in
imperial Japan, but interfaith conflict also followed colonial
incursions in India, Sri Lanka, and Burma. Before that time, there
was a general premodern harmony among the resident religions of the
latter countries, and only in the late nineteenth and twentieth
centuries did religiously motivated violence break out. While
conflict caused by Hindu fundamentalists has been serious and
widespread, a combination of medieval Tibetan Buddhists and modern
Sri Lankan, Japanese, and Burmese Buddhists has caused the most
violence among the Asian religions. However, the Chinese Taiping
Christians have the world record for the number of religious
killings by one single sect. A theoretical investigation reveals
that specific aspects of the Abrahamic religions-an insistence on
the purity of revelation, a deity who intervenes in history, but
one who still is primarily transcendent-may be primary causes of
religious conflict. Only one factor-a mystical monism not favored
in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-was the basis of a
distinctively Japanese Buddhist call for individuals to identify
totally with the emperor and to wage war on behalf of a divine
ruler. The Origins of Religious Violence: An Asian Perspective uses
a methodological heuristic of premodern, modern, and constructive
postmodern forms of thought to analyze causes and offer solutions
to religious violence.
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